EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF CONDUCTING TOURISM AND LOCAL HISTORY ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

Abstract

The article examines a problem of realizing educational potential of tourism and local history activities when working with modern schoolchildren. Based on their own pedagogical experience analysis, as well as the wide specialized literature range involvement, the authors demonstrate that partial solution is possible after studying a number of equivalent aspects of this organizing the participants in the educational process activity form. In particular, considerable attention is paid to opportunities existing at the present stage of Russia’s development to expand the tourism and local history activities use as one of the means to fulfill educational work with schoolchildren. The work reveals its main advantages in this quality. The researchers also describe the most significant features inherent in the main types of such activities. In addition, some attention is paid to the modern society and particularly to the state of school education system as factors that largely determine the effectiveness of the work.